The Vampire Squid (From Hell) is, without a doubt, my favorite cephalopod (squids and octopus) and one of my top five favorite animals EVER! Why? Because just fucking look at it! It’s one of the most unique looking of the order (it’s really the only survivor of the vampyroteuthidae family), and frankly it’s aesthetic is like nothing else of it’s relatives, and trust me when I say that even when some of my other favorites include the blanket octopus and the flamboyant cuttlefish.
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So here’s some fun facts about this Lovecraftian monstrosity:
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Its ink is bioluminescent, so it keeps enemies distracted as it jets away (it’s not the fastest, but fast enough to keep him at bay).
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If it’s still in trouble, its eye also glows thanks to the bio-luminescent bacteria, but the head must be kept safe, so it’s next trick is to illuminate the tips of its webbed tentacles (see video panel 3)! It waves them around to distract the predator and hopefully attack those tentacles instead, and can make a getaway by then. No worries, because that pesky tentacle will grow back.
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My favorite thing about it is how, if it encounters a potential threat, it INVERTS itself to cover its entire body; exposing its prickly underside, making it look bigger and scarier to ward them off. The fact that this shroud is called a pumpkin posture (see panels 4-7).
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It does NOT change color like its relatives, but that’s perfectly ok, because a feature like that would be completely useless where it lives.
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Food is extremely scarce down in the depth, so how does this fella eat? Well, thanks to it’s shitty slow metabolism, it can live for months without so much food, But, that still doesn’t answer the fucking question. You see that hair-like tendril (panel 8)? It reaches out and eats “marine snow” (which is composed of dust particles, scraps of food that fall from the surfaces, and even shit from other fish).
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It’s the only living member of its family left.
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It’s not a squid (despite the name), and not an octopus either. It’s so much of a badass that it belongs to its own family!
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I plan on getting this amazing fucker tattooed on me, and my Water-Starter Fakemon (see last 2 panels) is based on it.

This little kitty insist he didn't eat my canary, but I have a hunch he did 😉 haha this is the second cat skull I fired yesterday. The red is glaze I put on in order to somewhat protect the teeth. I will be firing them again tomorrow!

Vampire squid. 🧛🐙 Vampire squid, or "Vampyroteuthis infernalis", are the only extant species of the order Vampyromorphida, and have survived almost unchanged for the past 165 years.
Despite the name, vampire squid are actually more closely related to octopuses than to squid (order Teuthidae). Like their octopus cousins, vampire squid have 8 arms and a similar body morphology, though their arms are webbed and they possess a small internal shell. They don't have colour changing capabilities and don't have ink sacks, but they do produce bioluminescence, which is believed to be a defense against predators.
Although the name sounds fearsome, vampire squid are actually quite small, and unlike other cephalopods, they are not hunters. Vampire squid are bottom feeders that eat corpses and waste that drifts down from the shallows.
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A vampire squid captured on film by the NOAA. This 12-inch-long creature lives in the dark depths of 2,000-3,000 feet.
At this depth changing color or squirting ink, like its shallow-water cousins, would be ineffective due to a lack of light. Instead, if threatened, this squirts bioluminescent mucus at predators.
It gets its name from the dark, cloaklike webbing. Its scientific name (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) literally translates as "vampire squid of hell". Image: NOAA
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Jack lead me on a quest to find 2 specific sea creatures today: the “Amora” eel and a vampire squid. We found neither but we did find a moray eel 😉 PS what is a vampire squid? 🦑 🐠 #aquarium#vampiresquid#eel#fish#boymom

My marine science project!! Report on a marine animal or topic/issue :) i focused on the #vampiresquid , aka the Squid of Hell. Theyre actually very kind and docile creatures, and I can gladly report that they are in no harms way via humans 😌 Unfortunately seals, whales, and deep water fish (known as benthopeligic fish) snack on these little guys a lot. Also when i say little, i mean little. They grow up to a foot (12 in). I'd be glad to answer anymore vampire squid questions if you have them!! 🦑🧡 {#marinescience#art#copics#drawing }

Pushed myself through it, my vampire OC Gurro in a story in which he lost a fight to his brother Talon for rule of his tribe and got messed up.
One of my favorite ocs and I love and hate him so much
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(11/5-11/11) #vampiresquid have no ink sacs, and therefore cannot ink like other octopus and squid species. Instead, the #vampiresquid “draws its tentacles (arms) and webbing backwards over the body into the “pineapple” posture to protect itself...the tips of its tentacles contain #photophores , organs that produce clouds of #bioluminescent sticky mucus that glows for up to 10+ minutes, allowing it to get away from predators”(Aquarium of the Pacific). #wildlife#conservation 🔄 Picture Credit: @ssartrass #worldwidewildlife

Happy #SciFri !
The vampire squid is found in deep, dark waters where dark colored ink would be useless. These cephalopods instead release a clear liquid which contains tiny bioluminescent particles to confuse predators.
Vampire squids may look scary but they are not out for blood! They are harmless filter feeders.
Technically, this is not a squid or an octopus but is in-BAT-ween the two (🐙🧛‍♀️🦑...😂). They have eight arms and two tentacles and are in their own family. 📸: @Smithsonian
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